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Model of Dell's Information Age PCs

  • 23-02-2014 12:42am
    #1
    SimonTemplar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭


    Does anyone know the model of the PCs that were given to households in Ennis as part of the Information Age competition back in 1999? I would be interested to compare their specs against modern PCs

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    dmc17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,782 ✭✭✭dmc17


    If I was to guess, I'd say something like a Dell Optiplex Gxi?


  • #3
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,048 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    I'm not certain, but the only model I noticed with a friend was a Fujitsu I think ...... which was quite weak, even for the time.


  • #4
    Mr. G
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 4,621 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr. G


    http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/places/infoage/1xmas.htm

    Back in the day when ISDN was seen as High-Speed :)

    How times have changed.


  • #5
    jbkenn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 919 ✭✭✭jbkenn


    Dell Optiplex GX1 266Mhz/350Mhz
    Spec here
    http://www.jklmicro.com/images/products/OptiplexGX1.PDF


  • #6
    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    They were a GX1, if I remember correctly they had a 2gb hard drive, 64 meg RAM and a 266mhz processor, my in laws still have 1 in their house. They were a great thing for the town at the time but they weren't the highest spec'd machines ever.


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  • #7
    squonk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,986 ✭✭✭squonk


    It'd have been a just slightly low-mid range spec at the time. Not particulary bad but not amazing either. Relatively decent though considering a whole town got them!


  • #8
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,797 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Anyone still have their visa cashcard?
    4 minutes at the till to buy a mars bar. Those were the days


  • #9
    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    I still have 1 of the readers, it's a keyring that I use for the shed lock :)


  • #10
    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    Regarding the PCs, they were a fairly decent office/business PC, there was an issue if you wanted to upgrade the graphics or audio however as there wasn't much space in the box. Also, I remember a storm knocked out a load of modems around town, I spent weeks replacing modems for people.


  • #11
    Shapey Fiend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭Shapey Fiend


    Think Clareman has the right idea there, although I think the one I got only had 32mb ram and I'd to upgrade it. Later on some people had 64 and larger harddrives than 2gig.

    Think the main annoyance with mine was it had a 33k modem, which weren't really very commonplace in 1999.


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  • #12
    Clareman
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    I think at the very end people got better spec'd machines but Dell tried to make them all the same, I remember running fdisk on a drive and finding that it was a lot bigger than 2gigs but it was just partitioned smaller.


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